Archive of style : new and selected poems /

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke's illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates in Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems, a long-awaited retrospective of the indelible work of a Black feminist, community and LGBTQ activist and educator.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clarke, Cheryl, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • New poems. Jo'burg, 2016
  • Never Any Proof
  • Directory Entry
  • Easter Mass
  • Back Seat
  • Betty Carter
  • The message
  • Cost
  • Signs of the Times
  • Sandy Bland
  • I Love You, Love You Anyhow
  • Missed Love
  • Spring
  • Forsaken Elegies
  • Make me a habit of you
  • Too much to bear
  • Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022
  • Mother Emanuel Nine : their influence was wide
  • Selected poems. Targets (2018)
  • History
  • On Their Way to Life
  • Targets
  • Open Heart Surgery
  • depth in a two-dimensional space
  • Brief Interval
  • Legacy/Legends
  • lipstick corny
  • What does it mean?
  • Forty-Eight Years
  • Woman Ends Her Life : Elegy
  • Tercet
  • Reckless Domesticity
  • Living as a lesbian in the archive of style
  • Juanita
  • By My Precise Haircut (2016)
  • Mandela : 12-5-2013
  • a capital car chase
  • Women of Letters
  • oh, memory fatal and fateful
  • a sister's lament...
  • songs of longing
  • the empire
  • a child die
  • The Days of Good Looks : 2000-2005 (2006)
  • Living as a lesbian underground, fin de siècle
  • Billie Holiday
  • Dreams of South Africa
  • james dean longing
  • Experimental Love (1993)
  • War Crazy Men
  • Greta Garbo
  • Movement
  • passing
  • All Souls' Day
  • Flowers of Puerto Rico
  • Buttons
  • An Epitaph
  • Rondeau
  • Makeup
  • Remember the Voyage
  • Arroyo
  • Querida
  • Hard
  • Living as a Lesbian at Forty-Five
  • Najeeb
  • Veronica Ashley Wood, My Niece
  • Hanging Tough in the Persian Gulf
  • Elegy
  • an old woman muses from her basement
  • A Poet's Death
  • Humid Pitch (1989)
  • Bulletin
  • Sisters Part
  • party pants
  • Frances Michael
  • Erol
  • Ilona of Hickory
  • No Place
  • Living as a Lesbian (1986)
  • 14th Street
  • wearing my cap backwards
  • living as a lesbian on the make
  • The woman who raised me
  • journal entry : sisters
  • for my mother, 1979
  • palm leaf of Mary Magdalene
  • i come to the city
  • freedom flesh
  • Indira
  • intimacy no luxury
  • fall journal entry : 1983
  • sexual preference
  • Miami : 1980
  • living as a lesbian underground
  • An exile I have loved
  • sister of famous artist brother
  • Kittatinny
  • living as a lesbian at thirty-five
  • Narratives : poems in the tradition of black women (1982)
  • Of Althea and Flaxie
  • Mavis writes in her journal
  • The Older American
  • Fathers
  • The Moon in Cancer
  • Gail.